the calendar when couples celebrate their love for each other by ______
romantic cards and ______. Valentine's Day is on February 14, and some
countries, ...
Inside Out Valentine’s Day
WORKSHEET A
In English-speaking countries, Valentine’s Day is the name of the important date on the calendar when couples celebrate their love for each other by _____________ romantic cards and _____________. Valentine’s Day is on February 14, and some countries, where English is not the native language, have their own equivalent celebrations on the same date. Flowers, chocolates, perfume and aftershave are popular gifts on Valentine’s Day. As for the cards, almost all of them contain the colours red or pink, and many include the image of a _____________ to symbolize love. As well as couples sending each other Valentine’s Day cards or gifts, there is also the tradition of single people sending cards anonymously to those who they would like to have a relationship with. When they sign the card _____________ sending it, they often just put ‘from your Valentine’ or ‘from ?’, which can obviously make the receiver very curious! No-one really knows how Valentine’s Day got its _____________. However, the most popular _____________ is that Valentine was the name of a priest in Rome in the third century AD, at a time when the Roman emperor Claudius II decided that _____________ men would make better soldiers for his army than men with wives or girlfriends. He therefore made _____________ illegal for young men, but Valentine thought this was very _____________ and continued to perform secret weddings for young couples. Unfortunately, according to the story, Claudius _____________ what Valentine was doing and ordered him to be killed. An extra part of the story suggests that before his death Valentine spent some time in prison, where a young _____________ visited him regularly. He fell in love with her, and shortly before he died he wrote her a romantic letter saying goodbye. According _____________ the story, the expression he used in signing the letter was the one that people have copied ever since: ‘from your Valentine’.
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Inside Out Valentine’s Day
WORKSHEET B
A Fill the twelve gaps in the text on Worksheet A with the correct words from the box below. There are four words that you will not need to use.
unfair good heart name
before to head explanation
marriage gifts single from
discovered said exchanging woman
B Below are eight quotes above love that have each been split into three parts and mixed up. Can you put them back together again?
1
It is
in life is to learn how to give
stories never have endings.
2
Love is not just looking
someone you can live
win by losing their heart.
love
late to fall in love.
3 The most important thing 4
Love is a
is love, there is
it is not love.
5
Love is not finding
is not madness,
with, it’s finding someone you can’t live without.
6
True
never too
life.
7
Where there
game that two can play, and both
other, it’s looking in the same direction.
8
When love
at each
out love, and to let it come in.
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